Sonepur

Subarnapur District also called Sonepur District or Sonapur District is an administrative district of Odisha state in eastern India. The town of Sonepur is the district headquarters. Many loosely call the people of Sonepur region as Sonepuria. History:- According to historians, the Subarnapur district was known as Paschima Lanka or Western Lanka around the 10th-11th centuries.The evidence comes from a copper plate charter issued in the late 10th century by a Somavansi prince named Kumara Someswaradeva of Subarnapur district.The Prince had identified himself as the king of Paschima Lanka. It was further found that the Mahada copper plate grant of...